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Expert Verdict
The Brother HL-L8360CDW is a colour laser printer and gives you greater expandability, large memory, a maximum duty cycle, access to higher-yield Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges, lower running costs, greater security, and a few additional features, such as near-field communication (NFC) and a colour touch screen. Moreover, it prints well and has a very good speed. All of this at a decent price, which makes the HL-L8360CDW a better value, and therefore this fits well for a moderate-to-heavy volume colour laser printer for a micro or small office or workgroup. The HL-L8360CDW measures 12.3 X 17.4 X 19.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 48.1 pounds. Also, it comes with a paper capacity of 300 sheets, which is divided between a 250-sheet paper tray and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray.
The Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges and software are installed easily without any hassle. While the HL-L8260CDW is expandable to 1,050 sheets via three 250-sheet trays. In addition, this printer also supports two 500-sheet paper trays with a maximum capacity of 1,300 sheets. If we talk about physical connectivity options, it comes with a Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and it connects to a single PC via USB. Not only this it also supports peer-to-peer Wi-Fi Direct, and a slew of cloud, NFC and other mobile features. NFC allows you to print by touching your smartphone or tablet to a hotspot on the printer. Also, it supports Brother's Office Print cloud app for printing from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint 365, and OneDrive. The list of features does not end here, it also allows you to print from USB thumb drives. This machine comes with a 2.7-inch colour touch screen LCD that enables easy connectivity to the most popular cloud sites.
Security features of this printer are excellent, including Secure Function Lock for restricting specific features, such as printing in colour (to help keep the Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges cost down) for up to 200 users, and Secure Print for making sensitive documents accessible only through entering the correct PIN. This machine comes with both HP's PCL6 and BR-Script 3 for building good compatibility with desktop publishing and graphic design environments. Moreover, brother provides free tech support for the life of the printer, rather than for only the warranty period.
Brother rates this printer at 33 pages per minute for both monochrome and colour pages. In our tests, with the high-quality Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges, this machine performed well. While printing a 12-page, black, simply formatted Microsoft Word text document, the HL-L8360CDW churned at the rate of 33.2ppm. When combining the times from printing more complex PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint documents containing colour, graphics, and photos with the print times from the previous 12-page Word document, the HL-L8360CDW's scores to 11.4ppm. Coming to print quality, the HL-L8360CDW’s produced average quality text and graphics and slightly below average photos. The Excel and PowerPoint charts and slides were printed with only a few minor flaws, there were negligible banding in dark gradients. In all, text and graphics output is acceptable for most business purposes, including brochures and other marketing material.
Below average photo printing does not mean that the prints are unattractive. These imperfections were slight and not really noticeable until you started to look for them. This printer really has a good potential to save your money. The HL-L8360CDW and the HL-L8260CDW supports higher-yield Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges - 6,500 pages for both the black and three-colour (cyan, magenta, and yellow) cartridges. Not only is this machine more convenient, but it also is cost-efficient in the long run. Because of the high yield rates and prices for both the cartridges and the 30,000-page print drum, the cost of toner for both Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges are low.
Review
The Brother HL-L8360CDW printer is a laser printer with 2.7” touchscreen coloured display seamless performance. The physical dimensions of the printer are 44.1 x 48.6 x 31.3 cm and 21.8 Kg. The standard input tray capacity of the printer is 250-sheets which is adjustable for letter or legal size paper. Along with this an optional 250-sheet or 500-sheet paper trays can be configured with the printer to extend the capacity up to 1,300 sheets. This brother machine has an integrated NFC card reader for easy badge authentication and Active Directory for network user authentication. This feature protects against unauthorized device access and also helps to control costs by restricting printing on a per-user or group basis. For better convenience, the printer easily prints the document over a network or via mobile printing apps including AirPrint, Google Cloud Print 2.0, Brother iPrint&Scan, Mopria and Wi-Fi Direct.
The HL-L83860CDW printer has a printing speed of 33 ppm for both coloured and monochrome output. Using 4 separate Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges, the printer provides a printing resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi which is good for high-impact business documents.
Advantages
- Coloured printer
- Low-cost printing
- Flexible network connectivity
- Convenient mobile printing
- Supports ADF
- 2.7" color Touchscreen display for hassle-free navigation
- Allows multiple media types
- Compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux operating system
- Secured printing
Disadvantages
- Does not have scan, copy and fax features
- Bulky printer
- Low photo-print quality
Cartridge Requirements
- Brother HL-L8360CDW Toner cartridges include:
- TN421B toner cartridge
- TN421C toner cartridge
- TN421M toner cartridge
- TN421Y toner cartridge
Conclusion
Brother HL-L8360CDW is a coloured printer with only printing capability. This brother machine is a great choice for workgroups with higher print volumes. It helps to increase productivity with high printing speed, good quality Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridges and a touchscreen display for easy navigation.
I have just replaced the empty toner cartridges for my Brother HL-L8360CDW printer, but it is still prompting me to replace the toner. What should I do?
If you’re still receiving the “Replace Toner” error message on your printer’s print screen after replacing the cartridges, perform the following checks:
CHECK 1: Make sure that you have replaced the correct consumable.
Brother printers have many consumables that are required to be replaced, like the drum unit, toner unit, fuser, etc. It is quite common for people to replace the drum unit instead of the toner cartridge. Make sure that you have replaced the correct Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridge.
CHECK 2: Ensure that you are using a new Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridge.
Brother printers do not recognise used toner cartridges. This is because it causes a problem for the machine to accurately calculate the amount of toner consumed and will then cause a problem in reading the toner levels. It is advised that one must install only high quality, new toner cartridges in the printer for better performance.
CHECK 3: Check whether your toner cartridges have been installed correctly.
It might be possible that your Brother HL-L8360CDW toner cartridge has not been installed properly. Reinstall the cartridge properly and check if the error message is gone.
How to clean the paper pickup rollers of your printer?
Cleaning the paper pickup rollers of your printer from time to time help in reducing the chances of paper jams. Follow the steps below to do so:
- Turn the printer off using the power button.
- Pull out the paper tray and remove any loaded paper.
- Use a clean, lint-free cloth to clean out any dust on the separator pad.
- Wipe the pickup rollers inside the machine to remove the dust.
- Reload the paper in the paper tray and install it back in the printer.